The establishment has sewn up all the power bases.
When even the most out there third party candidate (Nader) is a multi-millionaire with a Washington Mansion, can you admit with a straight face that the establishment doesn't control everything?
I think most geeks are smart enough to recognize this, and recognize the growing power of the corporate state, which is why we're all so eager to worm ourselves into those technocratic corporations, we may not be able to give much input as to the steering of these plutocratic ships, but at least we're aboard, as scullery help if not as first class passengers.
I really haven't, I spent my free time this weekend browsing Slashdot, trying to setup PPP on my RedHat box, and measuring my rafters, since natural gas is gonna go way up, I'd better be prepared.
Did I spend any of this weekend watching a bunch of doped up genetic freaks from third rate countries prance around? Nope. Did many geeks? Probably not.
Maybe if these third rate countries would stop focusing on feeling good about themselves by winning medals in bicycling or something, adn start focusing on developing their technology, their GNPs would blossom, and the Olympics could go back to the amateurs, not the state sponsored pampered drug addled athletes.
ZDNet has reported that Microsoft's peer to peer NetBUIE network does not scale as well as Microsoft NetBIOS over TCP/IP network.
ZDNET has also reported that when you are setting up a network of more than 10 computers using Microsoft NetBIOS networking, you may wish to consider a client-server network as opposed to a peer-to-peer network.
And after this commercial break, we report on the latest findings about using coaxial cable for network wiring.
Like, duh!
But he makes a great C mp3 comparison album
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Seriously, if you think mp3's sound just as good a CD ripped wavs, try Shatner.
Listen to the recently released HDCD of Shatner singing Mr. Tambourine Man and compare it to the mp3's floating around. Your ears will hear the difference.
Though I suppose downloading Ricky Martin mp3's using Napster is quicker and cheaper than flying to Miami.
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You were the fist poerson to graciously point out my error and point me to the correct definition of comprise.
for this some mod modded you as redundant?
You lost kharma because some mod doesn't understand numbers?
Boo. hiss.
Is he talking about introverts?
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Or people who can't use a browser?
I'm confused here, first Katz talks about people who don't want to play software, then he talks about information have nots.
You can have a rich social life without playing softball on the company team. For instance, I correspond about my interests with people all over the world, and every few years I actually meet one of my correspondents in the flesh.
And just last weekend I talked to a woman while buying donuts, I'm hardly a social malcontent just because I don't play softball.
And I know how to use a browser, because that's how I meet my friends, in the chat rooms.
Can you imagine a bar code scanner driver built into the next Windows, and being unable to log into Windows unless you scan the barcode printed on the CD? Lost your CD? You must be a pirate.
Is there any reason this couldn't happen?
It would probably just be simpler to tattoo a barcode on each of us at birth.
Is it my fault that most Tracy's I know are women?
Is it my fault that there are so few women in computers? God knows we need more of them around, it would make the field less testerone driven and more caring.
I'm sorry.
Another good, old book, Soul of a New Machine
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If you ever get the chance, Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder if a fascinating read. It deals with hardware engineers making a 32 bit minicomputer at Data General in the 1970's. I highly recommend it.
For a woman, Tracy really know her stuff and gets into a great amount of hardware detail.
than Pittsford or Fairport, and closer to CompUSA and Best Buy.
But I'm stuck in the city, and wiring up my house is on my Palm's todo list, for now I just have Cat-4 running over my floor.
No room for other geeks though, my wife would object.
I don't want to see the Russki's power supply
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IBM ThinkPad series PGSCs are not the only laptops that have flown - or will fly in space. Computers using Mac OS and Linux have also flown as part of various payloads and are likely to continue to do so in the future. Meanwhile, the Russians will be using a Weiner Power laptop in their portion of the ISS. Other participating partners will likely bring their own laptops.
All I can envision is wrapping wire around your penis and sticking it in and out of a magnet.
If those Stalinistic writers had been published, they would have been killed, which is a lot like the commercial death that writers faced if they published during the French Revolution.
It's the act of publishing that requires copyright, not teh actual writing.
We can start replacing those expensive particle acclerators with simulations done on accelerated 3D graphics cards.
No longer will the people on Long Island have to worry about Brookhaven creating universe destroying black holes, instead, we'll jsut run simulations on computers.
Keep in mind, those quotes looked like they were from the odd Focus on the Family people. Even compared to a normal fundamentalist believer, they look extreme. These are the same people that spend their days issuing, "Harry Potter is the Devil's work" sort of messages, etc.
Coyne links virtual fantasies to other strains in creative history, like surrealism. "To search the web is to explore a vast 'city' within which one stumbles across strange objects and encounters surprise -- the net surfer is a flaneur (an idler, and a loafer)."
Well that pisses me off just about enough to get out of my chair and do some work for a change.
And the next thing you know, the British Royal Family will once again be openly ruling our great country, pushing their mind numbing and soul endangering policy of mindless teenage sex and drug abuse.
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The establishment has sewn up all the power bases.
When even the most out there third party candidate (Nader) is a multi-millionaire with a Washington Mansion, can you admit with a straight face that the establishment doesn't control everything?
I think most geeks are smart enough to recognize this, and recognize the growing power of the corporate state, which is why we're all so eager to worm ourselves into those technocratic corporations, we may not be able to give much input as to the steering of these plutocratic ships, but at least we're aboard, as scullery help if not as first class passengers.
Its moon, Charon, doesn't even really orbit it; both bodies orbit a point in between them.
This is the way orbits work for two bodies, each one orbits about the center of mass of the two body system.
The Earth and Moon orbit about a point that's within the Earth, but not on the center.
I really haven't, I spent my free time this weekend browsing Slashdot, trying to setup PPP on my RedHat box, and measuring my rafters, since natural gas is gonna go way up, I'd better be prepared.
Did I spend any of this weekend watching a bunch of doped up genetic freaks from third rate countries prance around? Nope. Did many geeks? Probably not.
Maybe if these third rate countries would stop focusing on feeling good about themselves by winning medals in bicycling or something, adn start focusing on developing their technology, their GNPs would blossom, and the Olympics could go back to the amateurs, not the state sponsored pampered drug addled athletes.
ZDNet has reported that Microsoft's peer to peer NetBUIE network does not scale as well as Microsoft NetBIOS over TCP/IP network.
ZDNET has also reported that when you are setting up a network of more than 10 computers using Microsoft NetBIOS networking, you may wish to consider a client-server network as opposed to a peer-to-peer network.
And after this commercial break, we report on the latest findings about using coaxial cable for network wiring.
Like, duh!
Seriously, if you think mp3's sound just as good a CD ripped wavs, try Shatner.
Listen to the recently released HDCD of Shatner singing Mr. Tambourine Man and compare it to the mp3's floating around. Your ears will hear the difference.
Though I suppose downloading Ricky Martin mp3's using Napster is quicker and cheaper than flying to Miami.
You were the fist poerson to graciously point out my error and point me to the correct definition of comprise.
for this some mod modded you as redundant?
You lost kharma because some mod doesn't understand numbers?
Boo. hiss.
Or people who can't use a browser?
I'm confused here, first Katz talks about people who don't want to play software, then he talks about information have nots.
You can have a rich social life without playing softball on the company team. For instance, I correspond about my interests with people all over the world, and every few years I actually meet one of my correspondents in the flesh.
And just last weekend I talked to a woman while buying donuts, I'm hardly a social malcontent just because I don't play softball.
And I know how to use a browser, because that's how I meet my friends, in the chat rooms.
Thsi review made my head hurt.
Did you ever wonder how Microsoft fits into this?
Can you imagine a bar code scanner driver built into the next Windows, and being unable to log into Windows unless you scan the barcode printed on the CD? Lost your CD? You must be a pirate.
Is there any reason this couldn't happen?
It would probably just be simpler to tattoo a barcode on each of us at birth.
I'm sorry, so Tracy is a man.
Is it my fault that most Tracy's I know are women?
Is it my fault that there are so few women in computers? God knows we need more of them around, it would make the field less testerone driven and more caring.
I'm sorry.
If you ever get the chance, Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder if a fascinating read. It deals with hardware engineers making a 32 bit minicomputer at Data General in the 1970's. I highly recommend it.
For a woman, Tracy really know her stuff and gets into a great amount of hardware detail.
than Pittsford or Fairport, and closer to CompUSA and Best Buy.
But I'm stuck in the city, and wiring up my house is on my Palm's todo list, for now I just have Cat-4 running over my floor.
No room for other geeks though, my wife would object.
IBM ThinkPad series PGSCs are not the only laptops that have flown - or will fly in space. Computers using Mac OS and Linux have also flown as part of various payloads and are likely to continue to do so in the future. Meanwhile, the Russians will be using a Weiner Power laptop in their portion of the ISS. Other participating partners will likely bring their own laptops.
All I can envision is wrapping wire around your penis and sticking it in and out of a magnet.
If those Stalinistic writers had been published, they would have been killed, which is a lot like the commercial death that writers faced if they published during the French Revolution.
It's the act of publishing that requires copyright, not teh actual writing.
This is great news.
We can start replacing those expensive particle acclerators with simulations done on accelerated 3D graphics cards.
No longer will the people on Long Island have to worry about Brookhaven creating universe destroying black holes, instead, we'll jsut run simulations on computers.
I was over-anxious. (-:
try thinking about baseball.
Why don't you just set the CD player on front panel of the treadmill?
It skips, badly.
It even has a 10 second anti-skip, but it still skips.
I run fast and heavy, so the treadmill really bounces.
The Cd player kind of works if I hold it, but it's hard to run.
Plus, I occasionally run outside.
Keep in mind, those quotes looked like they were from the odd Focus on the Family people. Even compared to a normal fundamentalist believer, they look extreme. These are the same people that spend their days issuing, "Harry Potter is the Devil's work" sort of messages, etc.
Hey, you don't even know me.
Oops, late for my coven.
Coyne links virtual fantasies to other strains in creative history, like surrealism. "To search the web is to explore a vast 'city' within which one stumbles across strange objects and encounters surprise -- the net surfer is a flaneur (an idler, and a loafer)."
Well that pisses me off just about enough to get out of my chair and do some work for a change.
I remember seeing one a a C-130 carcass at the FAA, a windmill shaped thing that turned a generator.
You would probably have to get your car above 200 mph though to make it worthwhile.
Or you could step down the 12V DC to 6V DC to replace the 4 AA power supply, hell, buy a CD lighter socket power supply, many of those are 6 V.
Compared to a mainstream $99 Rio, $140-$250 is cheap?
The only reason I want an MP3 player is for when I run on the treadmill. I play CD's in my car and at home.
Yeap, the AG used hacking when she should have used cracking.
Will the degeneration of the English langugae never stop?
Where is ESR when we need him?
I might actually check out k5, my office productivity has been dangerously increasing.
And the next thing you know, the British Royal Family will once again be openly ruling our great country, pushing their mind numbing and soul endangering policy of mindless teenage sex and drug abuse.
Thank God for Lyndon LaRouche!
Good old American ingenuity, putting together mechanical things and breaking them!
Vlad the Impaler last night was so awesome!!!